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by lelanthran 143 days ago
There's no valgrind equivalent, I guess?

I mean, even if valgrind ran on MacOS, it may still not give anything meaningful because the debug symbols are probably not going to be the same as that generated by GCC, and even if they were the same, there's still gonna be a bunch of symbols "missing" because of internal swift name-mangling, and even if that wasn't the case, the emitted code might just not be ABI compatible with C anyway.
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paulf38 141 days ago
I'm working on Valgrind on macOS, integrating Louis Brunner's work and trying to add a few more fixes. In 2025 support for macOS Intel 10.14, 10.15 11 and 12 was added. Intel macOS 13 is a bit harder of a nut to crack. And I have lots of issues with ARM, particularly building and testing on anything older that macOS 15.

Swift name-mangling will be an issue. Valgrind's name demangler comes from GNU binutils libiberty which does not support Swift AFAIK.

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DowsingSpoon 142 days ago
The Instruments suite, plus sanitizers like ASan, is basically the valgrind equivalent on macOS. It’s not exactly the same, but it comes close.
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